Apparatus for manufacturing gas



(No Model.) I A A. MAYER.

APPARATUS FOR MANUFAGTURING GAS.

No. 307,132. Patented Oct. 28, 1884.

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ADOLPH MAYER, OF HAZELTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,132, dated October 28, 1884.

' Application filed May 2, 1884. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH MAYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hazelton, in the county of Luzerne and State ofPeunsylvania, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas, of which the following isaspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for the manufacture of gas from naphtha, and has for its objects to produce agas of high illuminating power and of great directly over the steam-engine B, by which means the same piston-rod may lee extended through one of the heads of the steanrcylinder and enter the cylinder of the air-pump and be connected with the piston-head thereof, and thereby compress the air in the air-pump B whenever the steam-engine is in operation.

The letterE indicates a pipe connected with the air-pump 13, which carries the compressed air from the air-pump Binto the top of a tank, K, (containing a supply of naphtha as high as the dotted line,) is thence continued downwardly to near the bottom of the tank where it is provided with a slide-valve, N, having a spring, a, the object of which will hereinafter appear.

F F are globe-valves attached to the lower parts of the tanks K K and connected to the pipes O O, which extend, respectively, from tank K to K, and from tank K to tank K, and serve the purpose to convey the naphtha from one tank to the other and to regulate the flow of the naphtha as well as adjust the quantity which it may be desired tointroduce into the different tanks, any required number of which may be placed in succession, one after the other. i

G G G are short vertical tubes or cylinders D is a pipe which receives the exhaust-steam from the cylinder B and passes through the lower part of tank K and each successive tank K K and through the naphtha contained therein, whereby the proper temperature is maintained.

L L are glass tubes secured, respectively, to the tank K and tank K. These tubes have gage-cocks Z l at top and bottom and serve the .purpose to show the height of the naphtha in the respective tanks, and are also intended to be provided with thermometers, by means of which the temperature of the contents of each tank may be indicated and thus enable the attendant to maintain any desired degree. The compressed air in the pipe E forces the valve N downward against the spring a, and as the valve opens the air rushes into the naphtha and passes through it and rises into the vacant space in the upper part of the tank, (above the naphtha,) which becomes filled with the gas absorbed by the air. The pressure being maintained, this gas follows the direction of the arrow, enters the pipe H, thence into the bottom of the tank K through a similar valve, N, into and through the naphtha contained in said tank, whereby it absorbs a further supply of gas. It then passes through the pipe H, thence into the tank K through similar valve, N, into the naphtha contained therein, through the naphtha into the pipe H, through which into another tank or directly into the gasometer, thence into the mains for distribution.

I have found by experiment that the illuminatin g power of the gas increases as it issues from each successive tank-for instance, if burners are placed on the pipes H H H greater candle-power will be shown at H than at H, and at H than at H, and that a given quantity of naphthasay three gallons-will produce one thousand feetof gas of twentycandle power. The spring at is intended to close the valve N when the air-pressure is removed and thus prevent the naphtha from rising in either of the pipes E H H H. The pipe 1) extends from the top of the airpump Bas high as the tanks containing naphtha, (usually of four or five thousand gallons capacity,) the object of which is to utilize the vapor arising therefrom, which is drawn into the air-pump B by means of this pipe I) and ADOLPH MAYER.

Witnesses:

MARTIN ToULMIN, WV. H. Wins 

